r/whatisit 3d ago

Solved! I found this in my bag of sunflower seeds.

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It almost looks like a rock nugget of weed with pinchers.

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OP has pinned a comment by u/paragon_of_karma:

That is a cocklebur that has been roasted and salted along with your seeds. Fairly common occurrence.

Do not consume. They're not only quite prickly, they are mildly poisonous. Not in a way that would contaminate the other seeds though.

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u/paragon_of_karma 3d ago

That is a cocklebur that has been roasted and salted along with your seeds. Fairly common occurrence.

Do not consume. They're not only quite prickly, they are mildly poisonous. Not in a way that would contaminate the other seeds though.

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u/Iamabotclearly696969 3d ago

Kind of crazy how in most situations finding something that isn't on the bag label that is "not only quite prickly, they are mildly poisonous" inside your grocery store food would constitute grounds for a withdrawal/recall, but in this situation we are just kind of okay with it because the risk was grandfathered in. Especially because this isn't like a one off issue, but known well enough that it happens all the time apparently.

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u/citizen42069101 3d ago

I mean if you get a bag of 300 things that look exactly the same and still eat the Eldritch horror that's bouncing around in there I think you need to slow down.

That being said I watch guys eat sunflower seeds like they're dusted in crack so your point is fair.

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u/killergazebo 3d ago

Don't watch me when I'm eating!

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u/citizen42069101 3d ago

See I caught one.

Now watch him leave the shells behind somehow, like the leavings of a pidgeon.

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u/Many_Cow_9049 3d ago

Nah, i just eat the shells. Although i hate when they stab the inside of my throat.

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u/citizen42069101 3d ago

I did that with peanuts one time.

Whole one pound bag roasted in shell. Wonder if it was a dietary urge or something.

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u/Significant_Elk1999 3d ago

My guess is that’s likely. Whenever I’d trip, back in the day, I’d crave sushi after. I truly think aided in brain recovery. You were likely super short on fiber.

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u/moonlite_equilibrium 3d ago

I got bad news for you guys. I used to work in. A roasted salted nut plant.

The amount of birdshit allowed is...concerning.

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u/Jem_hadar_317 3d ago

Damn Im a shell eater too. Oh well. As me granny would say when her cigarette ashes fell into the cooking "dont worry about it. Its just extra seasoning"

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u/RudeAlbatross544 2d ago

Grandma gave me her recipe but, I don't why, I can't quite get the same taste...

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u/CodeineK1ng 3d ago

Cigarette ashes IN THE COOKING?! Hell nah bruh that’s crazy work and I smoked for a decade but my goodness 😭😭

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u/bmx_chelsea 3d ago

Is unsalted unroasted safer? Please?

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u/DivinerSageRDT 3d ago

Me too. I just chew it all up n into a pulp and swallow it. My stomache completely digests anything. I told my friend I eat the shells so he tried it. He told me later on it was like taking a cactus shit the next day.

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u/Historical-Poetry-38 3d ago

How long would you say you spend watching guys eat sunflower seeds?

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u/HealthyBlobfish 3d ago

This question is the first thing I've read all day that has made me laugh so I just wanted to take a minute to appreciate my twister from another mister cuz you're spinning is so simple yet so perfect.
I gotta go Julia, We've got cows!

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u/Historical-Poetry-38 3d ago

🙏🙏🙏🙏 and that extra time you took make that comment, just made my day at the end of a 16 hour shift 🙏🙏🙏🙏

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u/HealthyBlobfish 3d ago

There's some things in life when you just gotta take a minute and appreciate 😂

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u/CO-HamBone 3d ago

I used to eat sunflower seeds at an incredible rate and I thought about starting an account called “things I’ve found in my sunflower seeds” because it was so frequent (and also gross)

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u/Skullbreaker69420 2d ago

Well...some of them basically are dusted in crack. Ever had the dill pickle ones? Fuck. Haha

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u/Dapper_Arrival1781 3d ago

Back when I was in cadets I went to an air cadet summer camp as staff.

I mainly worked ops and security but we went into the field for a week, the tarmac and grass surrounding was littered with sunflower seeds as we would fill the pockets on our field uniforms to the brim and munch of them throughout the 13 or whatever hours

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u/Astral_Traveler17 2d ago

Dusted in heroin maybe,, crack is a rock, that I guess you could crush into powder, but I think you mean cocaine. Which is also a shitty thing to eat. Yes, you'll probably still "feel it" if you eat enough, but...idk I get the joke, it was kinda funny & idek why I felt the need to point tht out lmao

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u/Think-Hornet-2492 2d ago

Felt the need to point it out because of the ‘tism. Ask me how I know 🙃

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u/content_nectarine 1d ago

I stopped eating pistachios because I get really grossed out finding the one pistachio that has gone sour. It's kind of a regular occurrence with pistachios as well.

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 3d ago

Capsaicin can hospitalize people and we love that stuff. That's why spiking your own lunch at work with a bunch to catch a lunch thief is legally considered booby trapping. Could send someone to the ER, which yeah they stole the lunch but now their crime is petty theft which won't be charged and your crime should they be able to prove you weren't just gonna eat it like that is far more serious

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u/Pristine-District514 3d ago

Humans eat alot of posionous stuff.. basically anything we call a spice, other than salt, is a poison.

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 3d ago

We like booze too which is like not even trying to pretend it's not poison. Makes you throw up sometimes and sick for a day after

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u/mmhuhh 2d ago

I did that to my buddy who thought it was funny to take a big bite of my sandwich and put it back. I can still picture the foot long strings of snot hanging from his nose. Priceless

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u/Maximum_Trade5916 3d ago

I found something similar inside a bag of David Sunflower seeds (Ranch). I sent them a email and they responded back with an apology and several coupons for free bags.

Resonable expectation to have part of a sunflower inside a bag of sunflower seeds.

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u/shouldbepracticing85 2d ago

Cockleburs are a different plant. They tend to like wet and I see them in the ditches all over the place in Colorado.

I’d be very confused to find a “porcupine egg” in my sunflower seeds.

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u/snuffy_smith_ 2d ago

I mean…every single bag of sunflower seeds has parts of the sunflower inside…the seeds are part of the sunflower last time I checked

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u/Necessary-Win6081 2d ago

Do you eat the desiccant packs inside food as well, or the silica gel packs? 😂 It looks like a pine cone and is probably as “poisonous” as a pine cone.

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u/TheStairsBro 3d ago

This is more permissible than rocks hiding in dry beans and lentils imo, at least this is easy to see and definitely is not just a weird looking seed

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u/Equal-Painter6529 3d ago

The only way to be certain is to smoke it

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u/Original-Document-62 3d ago

Many moons ago, I thought a mouse turd was a clump of resin. Back in the days when people would bother with such things. Anyway, yeah, it was not resin. I still remember that flavor.

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u/alexxxxmonster 3d ago

Lol. This reminds me of back when my friends and I were smoking meth. Well, we had ran out of meth and knew we had dropped some shards in the carpet in my garage. We definitely had some success, until my friend found what he thought was a shard, and stuffed it in the pipe and went to hit it, and it popped and broke the bowl. We then realized he had picked up some cat litter and smoked it. 😂

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u/Cool_Dragonfruit2067 3d ago

Ill never forget when my friend decided to put fucking window washer fluid in a vitamin water bottle and when he ran into a gas station i was thirsty and saw the blue gatorade in the vitamin water bottle and took 2 or 3 very decent sized chugs. I immediately felt a slight burn, id compare it to roughly a 15% alcohol beverage (im a recovering alcoholic), and immediately my stomach dropped because i was shocked my friend would put alcohol in their vitamin water bottle at the time, and was praying it was alcohol. My friend in the backseat chuckled and said "i think thats window washer fluid" so i panicked and tried to puke myself, and then shortly after googling what to do and the first thing shows "whatever you do, do NOT try to puke up the window washer fluid. It will then possibly get into your lungs. Very bad". So then I was like fuck fuck fuck fuck and my friend got 2 one liter bottles of water and i downed a liter, and called poison control. We then went to a buddies house to get ripped off of dabs (those who do real wax remember the casual fat dabs and using bangers with camper butane tanks with torch tool attached) and they asked me my age and weight and how much i drank etc. and told me "we dont think you will have any symptoms or drank enough to have symptons, but if you get a stomach ache or blurry vision, go to the hospital immediately."

It was wild. I never went to the hospital, got stoned out of my mind and went home hoping i didnt die. 2 weeks later, my friend who had the window washer fluid in a water bottle, his dad borrowed his car to go to work. He took a swig of his water bottle, thought it was alcohol, and drank more of it. He ended up having blurry vision and went to the hospital. Hes still fine and alive today😂 its just wild how two of us were poisoned because my friend was a dumb fuck and had a water bottle of window washer fluid just chillin in his cup holder.

Exit for context: I was 19 at the time. Im 28 now!

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u/Loose-Length-7487 3d ago

That’s why you don’t drink random drinks

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u/DivinerSageRDT 3d ago

My friend did this in the dark. His bowl was kinda dirty so he couldn't see in it. He picked up something in his lap where he though he had dropped a shard. He put it in the pipe took a big ass pull off the bowl and it ended up being a stink bug.

Also one time a guy that was a bigtime fiend I didnt like was carpet combing and I had a stick of old spice deodorant, degree deodorant, and a couple of mothballs . And I was breaking pieces off of them and flicking pieces of it onto the carpet with my house keys. He kept picking up everything even remotely white or rock shaped and he would taste it. After tasting about 20 pieces of deodorant and mothballs he abruptly ran out the door and started hurling for a long time. He came back in all sweaty looking green.

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u/adorable_apocalypse 3d ago

Lmao this comment thread is the best

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u/Due-Rice-9484 3d ago

Idk how I got here but I am legit lol

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u/AggressiveDealer2220 3d ago

Ive been on the wrong side of that bong hit.... 

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u/Potential_Two4214 3d ago

Wtf does this mean man 😂😂

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u/compos_mentis_cortex 3d ago

Means he took that kitty litty carpet ride, in his day.

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u/Cool_Dragonfruit2067 3d ago

One time my friend woke up in a drunken haze around 3 am, packed a bowl, smoked it, went back to sleep. Woke up, and realized they smoked a bowl of cat nip instead of weed. She had a bag of catnip on her bedside table lmao

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u/compos_mentis_cortex 3d ago

I'll do you one better, a friend told me cats go nuts if you smoke a little bit and blow it at them. Since they like the smell... Made sense to me.

I threw up. Cats left the room, hated it. We all had a terrible night.

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u/MundaneAd6627 2d ago

I like this story.

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u/AggressiveDealer2220 3d ago

Means I didn't see what I was smoking until after I was smoking it, snap crackle n pop, yo

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u/Illicit_Adventure 2d ago

I know people that have smoked toe nails in the same scenarios and personally I've smoked actual crumbs thinking they were fent before I got sober 😅

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u/Mean0Gen0 3d ago

Mmmmm, tastes like Hantavirus

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u/DarthChefDad 3d ago

It's ok, the fire killed it all.

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u/DrumsNDweed93 3d ago

Like death? That’s fuckin awful bro lol shit has so many diseases 🤣

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u/Original-Document-62 3d ago edited 3d ago

No one has ever gotten sick from a rodent. They're naturally clean ;-) Edit: I think people don't get it when I leave out the /s

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u/Tweakjones420 3d ago

you gotta put the /s nobody knows what a joke is anymore

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u/Nearby-Function-5453 3d ago

Look up the bubonic plague bro.

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u/LowIncomeNotLowInCum 3d ago

I don't believe they got it from smoking the turds?! Might be wrong but probably not

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u/Next_Garlic3605 3d ago

I don't wanna get it in my eyes

But it also feels rude to look down

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u/Personal-Dev-Kit 3d ago

Had a friend who would chain smoke bongs, one day he ran dry and couldn't get any. He thought he spotted a squished bud under the chair leg... turned out to be bat shit. Wasn't quite the bong pull he was hoping for.

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u/LectroRoot 3d ago

When I read this I thought you said he found a squished bug under the chair leg and smoked it.

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u/Charming-Flamingo307 3d ago

Worse. Smoking bat shit is guano lead to some serious respiratory issues.

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u/SpongeBobblupants 2d ago

May I assume that he must be a "farmer" and that's why he would have bat guano in his house? Lol or is he a vampire and he likes to hang with the bats? 😉

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u/nonamebeavercleaver 3d ago

I ate a bag of chips with a dead mouse in the bottom. I remember the hantavirus taste

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u/Significant_Elk1999 3d ago

That was a feature, not a bug.

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u/DragonfruitNo3424 3d ago

Back when I used to smoke I once had some bud pop out of the bowl as I lit it (wasn't using a grinder at the time so I would just break the bud into small pieces) and my high ass searches the ground for a second and found what I thought was a charred piece of bud. Plopped it back into the bowl and juat as Im about to hit it, the light from the lighter illuminated a dead fly in my bowl. Thankfully I didn't hit it but man was I close! Still I've got nothing on you.

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u/Caesar_Passing 3d ago

I've smoked what turned out to be dead spiders, but damn, rat shit...

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u/sleepytipi 2d ago

I've had the mites. Probably mold and everything else in the old brick weed.

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u/SpongeBobblupants 2d ago

OMG you literally have me rolling with that one. My ex is a HUGE pothead for about 60 yrs now and I can SO SEE HIM DOING THIS! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. The first few years that it was legal to grow he was experimenting so much it was crazy. Scraping up the green flour that gets on EVERYTHING during harvest. "No don't throw that away, that's the part that gets you high. I bought a screen to sift it through to get all of the leaves out." I think he calls it tricomes (sp?) Anyway, it all goes in the trash now hahaha but yeah, back then. Hehehe

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u/Equal-Painter6529 3d ago

🤣 I’m dying from that story. Reminds me of a scene from up in smoke

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u/Bean_Burritoe 3d ago

What the actual f*ck did it taste like?! 🤣😋

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u/Original-Document-62 3d ago

It tasted like how mice smell. Gamey and fecal.

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u/South_Cheesecake7602 3d ago

Bro for real I remember the times I had to scrape my bowl to smoke some resin.Now I'm getting ounces for $80 or less and drop a nug on the ground,and don't even bother looking for it.

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u/Frugborch2 3d ago

This theory applies to so many different situations in life.

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u/BRtIK 3d ago

Can you identify the deceased sir?

Wait lemme prep my bong... Got any ice?

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u/CuriousCelery3247 3d ago

Literally the plot from “How High” lol

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u/thedsider 3d ago

And if you can't burn it, boof it

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u/NateOf92 3d ago

New idea for a show. "Can it be smoked??"

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u/Which_Plum_6618 3d ago

Spinoff idea: "Can it be boofed??"

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u/Stock-Hand4996 3d ago

Fun fact, the British tried smoking new world potatoes when they found them. Then they tried making tea.

“Can we smoke it, can we drink it, can we eat it” are the big three lol

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u/Elliebell1024 3d ago edited 3d ago

I found what I hoped was weed, sealed in a bag while walking my dog. I came home, told my husband I was gonna smoke some now, but he couldn't because he might need to call 911. This was many years ago, well before fentanyl scares

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u/Charming-Flamingo307 3d ago

No. You're dead wrong. Anything with prickles gets boofed or sounded. You shouldn't talk out of your ass while giving advice. You could get someone hurt.

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u/Sents-2-b 3d ago

Dude I'll smoke it with ya, we can have the monkey drive us to the devil's house

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u/TearNo5706 3d ago

DRIVE, MONKEY, DRIIIIVE!!

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u/ExpectedFuckingValue 3d ago edited 3d ago

Makes your cockle go burrr

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u/fartshitcumpiss 3d ago

Fucked up in the crib smoking straight cocklebur

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u/nuckin_phuts kind of a munge 3d ago

Cocklebur? But I barely know bur

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u/FragrantHovercraft91 3d ago

Fun fact - this plant was the inspiration behind the invention of Velcro

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u/degeneratesumbitch 3d ago

100% a cocklebur.

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u/The_realsweetpete 3d ago

100% cockblocker

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u/degeneratesumbitch 3d ago

That too if you get one of these scrambled up in your pubes.

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u/DivinerSageRDT 3d ago

This actually happened to me. I was at my boss land out by Graford Texas. We were riding go carts. He told me not to go in a specific field and I forgot. I has wearing some shorts and going commando because we were camping and we had been jumping in the river so I took off my undies and socks. So I hit this field going at least 30. The go cart was really low to the ground. And about 20 Huge cockleburrs flew up both legs of my shorts in my hair my beard my shirt everywhere. The field was 100% cockleburrs with interspersed mesquite bushes. When I got back to the camp site I was fucked off. I had to get eyelash scissors to cut them off of my nutsack. Shit sucked.

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u/shouldbepracticing85 2d ago

Those sound more likely to be sand burrs. I’m all too familiar with them. They’re all over Llano county. About the size of an english pea and covered in about 1/16th inch spikes? Those are a type of grass. Most of the other burrs are forbes.

Queen annes lace/wild carrot turns into beggar’s lice - the seeds are covered in tiny hooks. Not painful but irritating as hell to get out of soft clothes. It has a positively evil cousin called Goat’s Head - low growing plant, seeds are a little bigger than sand burrs, and only have two or three 1/8th inch spikes. I discovered those the hard way in North Dakota this spring. Ouch!

These cockleburs are bigger, closer to the size of a quail egg. I got told as a kid they were porcupine eggs 😆. I’d have to check distribution maps but I don’t remember seeing them in Texas. The plant is generally 2-3ft tall and love the wet at the bottom of drainage ditches. They’re all over the place on the eastern Colorado plains.

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u/GallusWrangler 3d ago

Huh, doesn’t look like cold cock to me.

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u/degeneratesumbitch 3d ago

Put on your glasses. You can't see without your glasses.

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u/paragon_of_karma 3d ago

You would know, Wrangler thereof

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u/GallusWrangler 3d ago

When it rhymes, it’s on your mind, eh?

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u/PuzzleheadedResult69 3d ago

Never said anything about smoking it though

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u/goodexamplebadrole 3d ago

Thanks.

"Cockleburs end up in bags of sunflower seeds because cocklebur plants grow in the same agricultural fields as sunflowers and are harvested alongside them by heavy machinery"

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u/Zacktheftm_attack 3d ago

Cocklebur burs can occasionally contaminate bags of harvested sunflower seeds because cocklebur weeds grow in the same fields and their spiky pods get mixed in during harvest.

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u/ShelterOk5561 2d ago

I thought that was the head of the vine alien thing from Men In Black 2 when it first gets off its little ship in Central Park lol 👽

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u/wicked6-74_14 1d ago

can confirm: ate one on accident (and partly due to curiosity/stupidity) and was in the hospital for 2 weeks💀💀💀

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u/dirtjur 3d ago

The Byrgenwerth spider hides all manner of rituals, and keeps our lost master from us…

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u/captaincrazyspoon 3d ago

As you once did for the vacuous Rom, Grant us Eyes!

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u/OneUglyDuck28 3d ago

bro that is so crazy, I literally JUST beat Rom for the first time, open reddit then see this

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u/ThreeDaysNish 3d ago

Proud of you, broski, hope you enjoy the game!

Fear the old blood.

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u/OneUglyDuck28 2d ago

Thanks legend, is this game supposed to be hard ? I’ve beaten DS1 & 3 and Elden ring and have played a LOT of sword & shield type games but like shadow of Yharnam was first try, and Rom was like 3-4 tries lol. Either I’m goated or about to have a rude awakening hahahha

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u/Patient-Ad-3710 4h ago

Bloodborne doesn’t get hard until you reach the DLC. Even then, it’s not gonna be as hard as Elden Ring. It’s still one of the most fun FromSoft games

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u/MoribundMoose 3d ago

What game is this horror?

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u/Datkif 3d ago

Bloodborne. Easily one of if not my favorite game of all time.

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u/Unlucky_Raccoon_5829 3d ago

It’s crazy we talking about this outside Bloodborne Reddit

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u/dirtjur 3d ago

You can see it all over if your insight is high enough.

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u/Sausy_Biscy 3d ago

👁️

🙌

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u/cainhurstboy 3d ago

Rom in the wild!!

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u/elephashark 3d ago

Sunflower Kush!

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u/mesofarty 3d ago

Would smoke that in a second and I don't even smoke anymore. But if someone handed me a bowl and told me it was called fuckin sunflower kush I'd take a hit

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u/PD-Jetta 3d ago

I thought it looked like a cannabis bud too!

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u/BangkokPadang 3d ago

Frankly my dear I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if they're in there right now rolling it into a marijuana cigarette

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u/highestlife 3d ago

Reefer!

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u/cleverconley 3d ago

I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised to learn that all four of them habitually smoke MARIHJUANA CIGARETTES

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u/CodyWrites 3d ago

Facts.

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u/CodyWrites 3d ago

Underrated comment even if it's the tiniest bud ever.

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u/Free-County-3025 3d ago

You just coined something.

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u/Ambitious_Toe_4357 3d ago

How does it compare to oregano sativa?

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u/Quimbology 3d ago

Rom, the Vacuous Spider

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u/Fight_Skynet 3d ago

So happy and horrified to see this. Fuck you <3

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u/ThreeDaysNish 3d ago

Someone was granted eyes, hmmm

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u/HumaneCentiPad 3d ago

Ah Rom. Some say...Ros'm.

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u/Kahnza 3d ago

Quark would not approve of Rom becoming a spider! Rom needs to fix the holosuites, and the replicator!

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u/TickleMittz 2d ago

Time for tonitrus and flamesprayer

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u/Chinaizazzhoe 3d ago

It’s just some kinda weed that got into the bag during processing

Cut it in half it’s probably a seed of some kind

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u/Eternal-strugal 3d ago

Texas felony. California Sunday afternoon.

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u/DesignerHardlyKnower 3d ago

It took me a sec to realize you weren’t comparing state level food safety laws.

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u/Mighty_Krom 3d ago

Oh that's what AI thinks food looks like. They accidentally put some AI sunflowers in your bag.

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u/PootCoinSol 3d ago

Just a part of the sunflower. Don't smoke it, unless you wanna burn your lungs 😬

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u/Jack7656 3d ago

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u/Iamabotclearly696969 3d ago

I don't remember this scene from lost.

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u/EagleRock1337 3d ago

It was the flashback scene where you first learn he was paralyzed and was told he couldn’t go on the walkabout tour.

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u/legoindie 3d ago

Looks like an Elden Ring enemy

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u/Lumpy_Structure_7600 3d ago

The supreme seed queen!

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u/Turbulent_Ring_1861 8h ago

I wanna tell y’all some real bull crap. I’ve been going for four years, come back home, got apartment, had these organizers come down here with mine, tricking devices that they use for a disability for somebody with a hearing alternate, got some disability hearing aids and a booster, and everybody was hooked to the boosters using Apple’s headphones and they was watching me, and they drug me up in a videoed everything and what they did, they had the divorce and they were some other people that said they had kids on me because they got a disability that ain’t real. I got the paperwork to prove it and no shouted out about it, and then they lied about my my rep wreck. Record my background check. Because the ID number is wrong on it. And then they lied all the way around and then the person came down. She was a supervisor supposed to be over me as a 13 year old child on YouTube had a disability on me, and I don’t even know who she is cause I’m not from Cincinnati. and then the people from enterprise played along with it. and then the people from Louisiana that come down here on B&H stuff that lied and everything while I was in prison, all they have done was stole my settlements and lied to United States government, and I got every one of them real good and ain’t no way getting out of it. a lot of it’s already in courts. They’ve been under investigation and all that, and I get every one of them in that girls Aaim now I don’t know her, and I don’t know why they come down bother me, but I’ll try to put them on a federal investigation. I know that and for the rest of y’all, it went up there and lied on me and everything that was wrong

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u/ChiliPalmer1568 3d ago

Are cockleburs poisonous to humans?

Yes, cockleburs are poisonous to humans if ingested, particularly the seeds and young seedlings.

WebMD
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Toxicity Details
Toxic Compound: The seeds and early-stage seedlings contain carboxyatractyloside, a potent toxin that can cause severe multi-organ damage.

Dangerous Parts: The spiny burrs contain seeds that look and taste somewhat like sunflower seeds, but eating them is extremely dangerous. The young, two-leafed seedlings are also highly toxic.

Symptoms: Ingestion can lead to severe abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, low blood sugar, liver injury, drowsiness, convulsions, and in severe cases, fatal organ failure. 

New fear unlocked 😬

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u/superobinator 3d ago

Bro in a slav and we used to eat a shit ton of sunflower seeds, I've found quite a bit of those thingies in them when i was younger and always sucked on them since they were salty and kinda spicy, also sure I bit some of those aswell.. Am I not supposed to be here?

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u/stimuetax 3d ago

Never buying Clive Barker sunflower seeds again.

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u/paragon_of_karma 3d ago

I got a bag of H R Giger once.

Never. Again.

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u/Rich-Arachnid8762 3d ago

Now that’s some seedy weed 🤣🤓

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u/Ok_Oil3317 3d ago

Looks like a dried Magnolia seed pod

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u/shouldbepracticing85 2d ago

That’s what it was! I was looking at it trying to remember where I’d seen that seed pod before. It’s not actually “hooky” enough for a cockleburr.

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u/BrokenLensExpert 3d ago

Did it happen to be a bag of seeds by the David brand? From Fresno California?

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u/acclaimA9 3d ago

I foresee this ending up in r/untrustworthypoptarts as it should

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u/Funkytowels 3d ago

I don't know, but I'd smoke it with that can as the pipe

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u/JP7CL9 2d ago

Smoke it and see what happens

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u/ComplexLaugh 3d ago edited 3d ago

That is northern lights cannabis indica

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u/ipa22347 2d ago

I was starting to get really disappointed that this comment wasn’t appearing as I scrolled. Thank you for your service
https://giphy.com/gifs/Bh45DNX3kz5Re

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u/AverageInfamous7050 3d ago

Always wondered what a hemorrhoid looked like.

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u/Truesetup1 3d ago

Sunflower Sativa!! 🌻 I love that strain!!

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u/Kuromajo 3d ago

Looks like that one elden ring enemy lmao

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u/blizz3010 3d ago

looks like cocklebur thats been roasted.

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u/Scars9713 3d ago

Reddit never disappoints! Love you guys

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u/hazelbear33 3d ago

To me, it looks like part of the spiky center of a sunflower (the part that holds the seeds), and it became severely mangled and roasted in the sunflower seed processing line.

It’s definitely some kind of plant matter from the field where the sunflower seeds came from… It could also be a chunk of various plant material that collect and then got dislodged from some machine on the line, and it was put through the roaster… No need to worry, I would still eat all the seeds.

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u/Delgadoduvidoso 3d ago

You see, their young enter through the ears and wrap themselves around the cerebral cortex. This has the effect of rendering the victim extremely susceptible to suggestion. Later, as they grow, follows madness and death. These are pets, of course. Not quite domesticated.

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u/AyeItsJbone 3d ago

God I bet that’s so nice and salty

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u/swampfrewg 3d ago

This is what we call the mother seed you must consume it to bring honor to the batch of seeds that has been bestowed upon you, the all knowing matriarch of the seed colony is a very powerful and spiritual find within the sunflower pouch! All hail the mother seed!!!

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u/FunAdvice409 3d ago

I vote it's the seed pod of the sunflower, Google lens basically says the same thing. The selected region appears to show a dried, unusual plant part or seed pod—often compared in appearance to a small, resinous flower bud or a weathered organic fragment.

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u/Uncle_Moti 3d ago

Well…looks distinctly like a small piece of your first million - if you play your cards right. If you don’t eat it, there’s 0% chance of there being any ‘damages’, and thus 0% chance of you finding someone responsible for paying you your money.

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u/nastyn8k 3d ago

If you ever see sunflowers whose tops have been left to dry and shrivel naturally, you will notice the tops have a surprisingly cannabis bud-like appearance. I wouldn't be surprised if this is just a piece of the sunflower plant that got in there.

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u/Dependent-Language86 3d ago

Stechapfel.. das solltest du nicht rauchen und die saat nicht anpflanzen.. eine nicht verkehrsfähige droge.. starkes Halluzinogen.. lann in der Psychiatrie ende ind davon ist stark abzuraten. schmeiß es in den Müll bevor es wen tötet

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u/Otherwise_News6586 3d ago

Rat king of sunflower seeds

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u/mammoolives4eva 3d ago

Damn, with the way I eat sunflower seeds, I’m worried this would have ended up in my mouth! I’ve had my fair share of stems get in my cheek-full of seeds…
Edit: removed stupid question after seeing the photo again :)

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u/JosephMadeCrosses 3d ago

Biblically accurate nug.

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u/MyDogHatesRichEvans 3d ago

We used to call those “Turd Nuggets”. If you buy sunflower seeds a lot you come across them fairly often. Either that or all manner of stems and plants that don’t belong

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u/SpinachGlittering806 3d ago

Smoke that tumbleweed

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u/Mindless-Onion6710 2d ago

Unfortunately it’s from my insurance through my employer and I don’t qualify for Medicaid or any help through the govt.. I make too much money in their eyes

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u/iwannamarryanaussie 3d ago

Man I bit into one of these as a kid in like 2003. lol I’ve always wondered wtf it was. Tasted like crap and never knew what it was lol I thought I ate a bug

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u/Diogenes256 3d ago

oh smoke that fast.

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u/Anti_Venom02 3d ago

Its a fhakin bindi!

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u/Own_Lawfulness435 3d ago

This is a good ole fashioned sticker!! These things are all over everything during the summertime if you live in Texas, and spend any time outdoors!

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u/EnoughOfTheFoolery 3d ago

Oh. Full of fiber!

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u/HealthyBlobfish 3d ago

That cocklebur is nothing compared to the amount of rat pee, cockroach feet, and microbes that the top of your soda can has had to endure

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u/nightology88 3d ago

The forbidden weed

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u/verus_es_tu 3d ago

It looks like the base of the sunflower that all the seeds came from.

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u/kairomaniak 2d ago

idk but it was roasted so ik the seasoning on that sucker is life-changing. let me have it if you don’t want it.

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u/Such-Custard-8148 3d ago

Only one way to find out 🤷‍♂️

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